308, BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
congestis . . . . spikes ovate or oblong,” with which it does not in the least 
accord. 
DistRIBUTION.—So far as known, local in the neighborhood of Barstow, 
in the Mojave Desert. 
Fishpond PR (Daggett), May 1882, PARISH 644, type; Barstow, May 
14, 1897, F. W. Hussy 141; May 3, 1906, HALL and CHANDLER 6831; May 18, 
1905, HALL ee 
6. PAROSELA JOHNSONIE Vail, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 24:17. 
1897.—Dalea Johnsonii Wats., Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5:64, 1871.— 
Shrub 1-1.5 m. high, the slender branches scantily appressed- 
pubescent or glabrate, glandless or nearly so: leaflets 5-7, linear 
to narrowly oblong, thinly pubescent and obscurely glandular, 
narrowed to the rachis: flowers short-pedicellate; calyx sparsely 
pubescent and nearly glandless, obscurely nerved, 5-5.5 mm. 
long, the teeth less than half the length of the tube, the upper pair 
triangular-acute; corolla deep purple; petals-about 6 mm. long. 
Type. ‘Near St. George, on the Virgin River, Utah.” — 
DIstTRIBUTION.—From southern Utah to the borders of Arizona (Grand 
Cafion, Witson) and the eastern border of the Colorado Desert 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—Eastern edge of the Colorado Desert, SCHEI- 
LENGER; Kane Spring, Ord Mountain, May 1, 1906, Hatt and CHANDLER 
6826; Cottonwood Mountains, May 11, 1905, HALL 6024. 
PAROSELA JOHNSONII (Wats.) Vail var. Saundersii, comb. nov. 
—P. Saundersii Abrams, Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 6:396. 1910; 
P. Wheeleri Heller, Muhlenb. 2:216. 1906; Dalea Saundersit 
Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 2:83. pl. 2. 1903.—Leaflets 5~9, lanceo- 
late, sessile, or on short petiolules, glabrate; stems sparsely prickle- 
glandular. 
Victorville, May 12-14, 1903, C. F. SAUNDERS, and May 1905, HALL 
6197; Big Pine, Inyo County, May 29, 1906, HALL and CHANDLER 7222; 
Owens Valley, May 11, 1906, HELLER 8236. 
PAROSELA JOHNSONII (Wats.) Vail var. pubescens, n. var.— 
Calycis dentibus majoribus tenuioribusque; legumine pubescente 
simul glanduloso. 
Lee’s Ferry, Arizona, June 13, 1890, JONES 3076. 
PAROSELA JOHNSONI (Wats.) Vail var. minutifolia, n. var.— 
Foliolis 5-7, oblongis, 2-4 mm. longis. 
Mouth Panamint Cafion, May 11, 1906, Hatt and CHANDLER 7002; 
Providence Mountains, May 24, 1905, BRANDEGEE. 
